The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-10

NJ. BrdSWell ana james SmyUne, Jf., ana
the latter was injured by q knife in the
hands of the former.
Judge Mitchell has Just granted bail TO
Horace Anderson, the man who killed
Thomas Evans in Pasco county about two
weeks ago. The amount is placed at SIC, 600,
and Anderson is confident of being able to
furnish that bond, with the necessary sure
ties within a few days.
Lizzie Abbott, aged II, of New Smyrna,
committed suicide Thursday Her mother
was absent from home for while, and upon
her return found the child in commissions.
She admitted taking strychnine; and said:
Mamma, am tired of living and want to
go 10 papa" There is no cause known
other than morbid fancy.
The jury in the case of the Orlando and
Winter Park railway VS. Annie Z. Walker
ct al, summoned to assess the damages to
the property of the defendants, caused by
the railway crossing their property, viewed
the property and agreed upon q verdict of
$500. This was the only obstacle to the
right of way between Orlando and Osceola,
and work will now be rapidly pushed for
ward to completion.
A case of "didn't-know-it- was loaded"
occurred at Lady Lake Sunday. A. Pen
pington and Tom Sigh had been chatting
each other, when, as the latter was coming
out of the dining room, the former picked
up MS shotgun ana leVeieQ IL al ION. vi
course it was not loaded. Pennington had
been shooting bats with it the day before
and had left it unloaded. But Tom Sligh's
younger brother had loaded it with duck
shot, and, in consequence, Tom saved his
life by lodging suddenly backwards. The
load tore plug out of his right arm just
below the shoulder, producing an ugly but
not serious wound. Had Tom not lodged
the load would have lodged in his breast
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the case of the city of Jacksonville VS..
Samuel Houston, who had been arrested a
short time ago by Marshal Hernandez to en-
force the payment ofsa fine of 800, imposed
in the Mayors Court over year ago, from
which court Houston took an appeal TO the
Circuit Court, and where the judgment of
the lower court was confirmed.s In render
ing his decision Judge Baker held that there
was no grant of power in the organic act
under which city governments are organ
lied to imprison for the non-payment of a
fine and costs, and the judgment under
which the prisoner was held was void He
also held, however, that a city could sen
tence to Imprisonment in the first instance,
and the penalty would be the term of i'm
prisonment imposed, and the prisoner could
be sent to prison for the time named in the
sentence, but if fine should be imposed, the
collection of the fine must be by the usual
common law remedy.
The County Commissioners have made a
division of Nassau county, with five Com
missioners and justices districts two of
which are constituted by Amelia Island and
the other three the remaining portion of the
county. A resolution was introduced at
the meeting of the Commissioners, appoint
ing committee to negotiate for a site for a
court house building for Nassau county, at
their present county seat. The object of
the resolution was to secure proper build
ing for the county officers or, if defeated,
to put the Commissioners on record. The
resolution was defeated, Commissioners
Hoyt and Duryee voting in the affirmative,
while Messrs. Suorency, Dyal and Higgin-
botham voted against it. This will proba-
bly, cause a division of the county, unless
the mainland chooses to recede from its po-
sition as recorded by the Commissioners. A
division at Amelia river would be very ac-
ceptable to the islanders, and court house
would be erected at once that would be an
ornament to the county. But when Gala
han votes to go to billiard as county seat,
there will be music in the air, whether the
inducement is a S. 900 wooden building or
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